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- the present invention relates to a radio beacon location computing apparatus and method for determining the location of a radio beacon; and, more particularly, to a radio beacon location computing apparatus that can determine the location of a radio beacon by receiving signals transmitted from the radio beacon at a plurality of base stations and using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) information and phase difference information of the received signals, and a method thereof.
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- FIG. 1 is an exemplary view showing a typical radio beacon location computing system.
- a radio beacon 100 transmits signals in two or more frequencies f 1 and f 2 , which are independent from each other. Then, at least three base stations 111 , 112 and 113 receive the signals in the two frequencies, extract phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 based on a transmission distance in phase difference calculator 141 , 142 and 143 , and computes the location of the radio beacon 100 in the location computing server 120 based on the extracted phase differences to thereby compute and determine the location of the radio beacon 100 .
- the method that a radio beacon transmits signals in two or more frequencies and base stations receive the radio signals and compute a distance by calculating a phase difference based on a frequency interference phenomenon has a problem that the calculation for acquiring a distance between a base station and a radio beacon produces a plurality of solutions where the phase differences between the two frequencies are ⁇ , 2 ⁇ + ⁇ , 4 ⁇ + ⁇ , . . . due to ambiguity of a phase repeating at a period of 2 ⁇ .
- the conventional radio beacon location tracing method using more than two different frequencies and a phase difference thereof has a limited coverage, which is an area where the phase difference between the two frequencies is smaller than 2 ⁇ .
- the conventional method cannot be applied to an environment where the coverage is larger than the phase difference of the two frequencies, i.e., 2 ⁇ .
- FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating ambiguity in location computation (positioning ambiguity) caused by phase ambiguity.
- One radio beacon (TS) 100 transmits radio signals by using two frequencies, and base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 111 , 112 and 113 covering the area where the radio beacon 100 is disposed measure the phase difference between the two frequencies and computes the distance to the radio beacon 100 .
- the measured phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 correspond to distances R 1 , R 2 and R 3 210 , 220 and 230 , respectively.
- an intersection 240 where the three circles meet is determined as the location of the radio beacon 100 .
- the conventional location computing method using more than two frequencies and phase difference at a location where the frequencies arrive may produce a plurality of solutions due to the phase ambiguity, it should be used within an area where the phase difference between the two frequencies is less than 2 ⁇ .
- the limitation in distance draws back the location computation of a radio beacon from enlarging into an area where the phase difference between the two frequencies is larger than 2 ⁇ .
- an object of the present invention to provide a radio beacon location computing apparatus that can compute the location of a radio beacon without limitation in distance by using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) to resolve a phase ambiguity problem occurring in a location computing method using multiple frequencies, and a method thereof.
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- a method for computing a location of a radio beacon by using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) and multiple frequencies comprising the steps of: a) receiving signals of multiple frequencies in a plurality of base stations from the radio beacon and acquiring arrival time (t 1 , . . . , tn) of the received signals; b) receiving phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 of the multi-frequency signals from the base stations; c) acquiring calculation distances (R 1 , . . . , Rn) based on the phase differences; d) removing phase ambiguity from the calculation distances by using the arrival time; and e) determining the location of the radio beacon based on the calculation distances deprived of the phase ambiguity.
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- a system for computing a location of a radio beacon by using time difference of arrival and multiple frequencies comprising: a plurality of base stations configured to receive signals of multiple frequencies transmitted from the radio beacon, and detect and output phase differences and arrival time; and a location computing server configured to receive the phase differences and the arrival time outputted from the respective base stations, acquire calculation distances based on the phase differences, remove phase ambiguity from the calculation distances based on the arrival time, and compute the location of the radio beacon.
- the apparatus and method of the present invention can compute the location of a radio beacon without limitation in distance by receiving signals of multiple frequencies transmitted from the radio beacon at a plurality of base stations and using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) along with phase difference of the multiple frequency signals to remove phase ambiguity from distance acquired from calculation based on phase difference.
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- FIG. 1 is an exemplary block view illustrating a typical radio beacon location computing system
- FIG. 2 is an exemplary diagram illustrating ambiguity in location calculation (positioning ambiguity) caused by phase ambiguity
- FIG. 3 is an exemplary block view illustrating a radio beacon location computing system using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) and multiple frequencies in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart describing a radio beacon location computing method using time difference of arrival and multiple frequencies in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a phase ambiguity removing process in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is an exemplary block view illustrating a radio beacon location computing system using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) and multiple frequencies in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- TDOA Time Difference Of Arrival
- the radio beacon location computing system includes a radio beacon (TS) 310 , a plurality of base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 320 , and a location computing server 330 .
- TS radio beacon
- the radio beacon 310 transmits signals in two frequencies f 1 and f 2 .
- the base stations 320 receive the signals of two frequencies f 1 and f 2 transmitted from the radio beacon 310 , and detects and outputs phase differences and arrival time of the received signals.
- the location computing server 330 receives the phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 and arrival time t 1 , t 2 and t 3 of the signals transmitted from the base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 and computes the location of the radio beacon 310 .
- the base stations 320 include a receiver 321 , a phase difference calculator 322 , and an arrival time detector 323 .
- the receiver 321 is configured to receive the signals transmitted from the radio beacon 310 through an antenna, modulate the signals, and output the modulated signals.
- the phase difference calculator 322 calculates phase differences between the signals of the two frequencies f 1 and f 2 outputted from the receiver 321 based on a frequency interference phenomenon.
- the arrival time detector 323 receives the signals of the two frequencies f 1 and f 2 transmitted from the receiver, and detects and outputs the arrival time of the received signals.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart describing a radio beacon location computing method using time difference of arrival and multiple frequencies in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- a plurality of base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 receive radio signals of two frequencies f 1 and f 2 are received from a radio beacon.
- the base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 detect arrival time t 1 , t 2 and t 3 of the received signals, and output the arrival time t 1 , t 2 and t 3 to the location computing server.
- the arrival time t 1 , t 2 and t 3 at step S 450 , phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 of the signals of two frequencies are calculated and outputted to the location computing server.
- the location computing server calculates and acquires time difference of arrival ⁇ t 1 , ⁇ t 2 and ⁇ t 3 based on the arrival time t 1 , t 2 and t 3 and the following Equation 1.
- ⁇ t 1 t 1 ⁇ t 2
- ⁇ t 2 t 2 ⁇ t 3
- ⁇ t 3 t 3 ⁇ t 1 Eq. 1
- t 1 denotes arrival time taken for a signal to arrive at a base station RS 1 ;
- the location computing server determines a predicted location (X′,Y′) of the radio beacon by using at least two distances among the distances at step S 440 .
- the location computing server calculates propagation distances based on the inputted phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 along with the steps S 420 and S 440 and acquires calculation distances R 1 , R 2 and R 3 at step S 460 .
- the location computing server removes phase ambiguity from the calculation distances R 1 , R 2 and R 3 based on the predicted location (X′,Y′) which is acquired from the predicted distances d 1 , d 2 and d 3 .
- the process of removing the phase ambiguity from the calculation distances will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 5 .
- the location computing server determines the location of the radio beacon based on the calculation distances R 1 , R 2 and R 3 which are deprived of the phase ambiguity.
- FIG. 5 is an exemplary diagram illustrating a phase ambiguity removing process in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- the calculation distances R 1 , R 2 and R 3 510 , 520 and 530 are acquired from calculation based on the measured phase differences ⁇ 1 , ⁇ 2 and ⁇ 3 .
- the intersection point where the circumferences of the three circles meet is predicted as the location 570 of the radio beacon.
- the location of the radio beacon may be predicted to be R 1 ′ 511 where the phase difference between the two frequencies is 2 ⁇ + ⁇ 1 .
- one among the redundant solutions obtained due to the phase ambiguity is selected as a calculation distance based on the predicted location, which is obtained based on the distances acquired from calculation based on the time difference of arrival.
- a calculation distance closer to the predicted location (X′,Y′) 590 acquired by using the distance is selected.
- the phase ambiguity is removed by determining the calculation distance R 1 510 which is close to the predicted location (X′,Y′) 590 is determined as a calculation distance in the present embodiment.
- the calculation distances from the radio beacon to the base stations RS 1 , RS 2 and RS 3 are determined to be R 1 510 , R 2 520 and R 3 530 , and the location of the radio beacon is determined based on triangulation. To sum up, a point where the three circles formed by the calculation distances R 1 510 , R 2 520 and R 3 530 is finally determined as the location 570 of the radio beacon.
- the method of the present invention described above may be realized as a program and stored in computer-readable recording media, such as CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, floppy disks, hard disks, magneto-optical disks, and the like. Since the process can be easily implemented by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains, it will not be described in detail herein.
- the present invention is applied to a system for detecting the location of radio beacons.
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